beep vs blip

beep

noun
  • A short, electronically produced tone. 

  • A message sent to a pager device. 

  • The sound produced by the horn of a car, or any similar sound. 

verb
  • To sound (something that makes a beep). 

  • To contact (someone via) a pager device. 

  • To telephone a person, only allowing the phone to ring once, in order to request a call back. 

  • To produce a beep. 

  • To have sexual intercourse with - referring to the bleep tone used to censor obscene words in broadcasts 

blip

noun
  • A short sound of a single pitch, usually electronically generated. 

  • A small dot registered on electronic equipment, such as a radar or oscilloscope screen. 

  • A brief and usually minor aberration or deviation from what is expected or normal. 

  • An individual message or document in the Google Wave software framework. 

verb
  • To change state abruptly, such as between off and on or dark and light, sometimes implying motion. 

  • Synonym of bleep (“to replace offending words in a broadcast recording with a tone”) 

How often have the words beep and blip occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )